Buyers Guide – Feb 2020: Must haves this Feb

Lenspen NLP-1

Keep your camera lens spotless with the black Lenspen lens cleaner. It’s small and lightweight, so won’t add too much weight to your kit, and it’s pen-shaped for easy use. The Lenspen cleaning tool is designed for camera lenses and other optical items, and, thanks to its slightly concave 0.47-inch (12mm) cleaning tip, it’s especially compatible with the convex shape of lenses on DSLR cameras, binoculars, and rifle scopes. It uses no liquids to clean the lens, and a retractable brush is included for dust removal.

Ilford FP4 Plus 35mm film

This medium-speed black-and-white negative film is an ideal choice for general photographic applications, as well as for copy and internegative work, and scientific, technical, and industrial photography. It excels at capturing detailed subjects in good indoor and outdoor lighting, making it great for portraits, fashion, landscapes, and more. It features a fine-grain structure with high acutance and sharpness, meaning it is well suited to enlarging and scanning. It features exposure latitude above and below ISO 125, so it can be push or pull processed while retaining usable results. 

Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl A4

Featuring the latest high dynamic range (HDR) optically clear coating, coupled with advancements in inkjet-receiving-layer design, Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl paper showcases images with clarity, high sharpness, and great colour gamut. Both glare and pesky fingerprints are eliminated due to the high-density, resin-coated heavyweight base and smooth pearl finish, and the natural photographic white tint produces prints that look and feel like a photograph. Prints will be touch dry straight from the printer. Smooth Pearl is compatible with all high-quality dye and pigment-based inkjet printers.

Sigma 16mm F/1.4 Contemporary DC DN

Great for low-light conditions, this Sigma Contemporary lens mixes a comfortable wide-angle design with a fast maximum aperture. Designed for use with APS-C-format Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras, it gives photographers control over depth of field for selective focus. Several low-dispersion and aspherical elements control colour fringing and aberrations, providing sharpness and clarity throughout the aperture range. Flare and ghosting are suppressed thanks to super multilayer coating throughout, providing greater contrast and colour fidelity when in strong lighting conditions. Its stepping AF motor affords quick, quiet, and smooth focusing that suits still photography as well as video applications.

Sigma fp Mirrorless Digital Camera

Small and mighty, this lightweight camera achieves great still and video results. It has a full-frame 24.6MP BSI Bayer CMOS sensor, and 14-bit colour depth. It can shoot at a rate of 18fps, and the camera has contrast detection and a 49-point selection mode for AF measurement distance. It can expand to ISO 6–102,400, and it can capture UHD 4K recording at up to 30p, while Full HD recording can be captured at up to 120p. For RAW video data, 12-bit Cinema DNG or LOG external recording is supported.

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